Shefer-Mossensohn, Miri

Ottoman medicine : healing and medical institutions, 1500-1700 / Miri Shefer-Mossensohn. - Albany, NY : State University of New York Press, 2009. - 338 p. : charts ; 26 cm. - 61:9(56) (NLA) .

Includes Bibliography (pp. 241-270) and Index (pp. 271-277).

Contents : Medical pluralism, prevention and cure --
In health and in sickness : the integrative body --
Feed the hungry, visit the sick and set those who suffer free : medical --
Spaces of disease, disease in space --
Conclusion : Ottoman medicine Ottoman? successful? --
Appendix: list of hospitals discussed in the book --
Endnotes

9781-4384-2530-6


History--Medicine --Turkey.
Medical care--History--Turkey.

61:9(56) (NLA)